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Crowdsourcing a TEDx at SISSA Trieste, Eric Ezechieli

May 10, 2012

“A few months ago you enthusiastically responded to my request for help, posted on KurzweilAI. Here you will find the result: a crowdsourced TEDx (probably the first of this kind). It is in Italian (recorded at SISSA in Trieste, Italy) with English voiceover translation.

“I asked the following question: ‘What are the three most important trends shaping humankind’s future in the next 10 years? Provide specific recent examples/news/Web links which exemplify each trend.’”

“Along with you, about 230 people responded in a couple of days, contributing almost 700 trends and hundreds of links. The talk explains the process, and summarizes the results.

“I did not pretend to be scientific in the talk! It was intended for a TEDx audience who knew little or nothing about exponentials, so I have simplified some messages, including labeling as ‘exponential’ trends which are not exactly corresponding to this definition within the Singularity community, and some other simplifications (such as not talking about the fact that planet Earth is indeed becoming an ‘open system’ as we open-up the space frontier). The goal was to inform, and inspire.”

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It is said that if the ONLY tool you own is a hammer, then Everything will look like a nail. So putting greater access to larger number of Tools in the hands of our young people is our only hope of achieving a sutainable planet and give rise to improving the Human Condition in ALL parts of the world. That can’t happen soon enough!